There are several object-oriented languages. The three most common ones are, Smalltalk, Java, and C++.

Smalltalk was developed in the 1970’s. Alan Kay created it at the Xerox Corporation Palo Alto Research Center. Although it never achieved the commercial success of other languages, “Smalltalk is c

“C++ supports essentially every desirable behavior and most of the undesirable ones of its predecessor, but provides language improvements” (Reddy and Wise) that more closely resemble the English language.

Although there is a solid direction of where object-oriented programming is heading, OOP will have to overcome compatibility issues, prevailing through the threat of drastic changes, and most importantly, what standards will be agreed upon and who will be involved in setting those standards. As Alan Kay had once said, “The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

From machine language (0 and 1) to object-oriented programming (Java and Smalltalk); the revolution has been ever changing. Computers not only are required to process faster and hold more memory, but they should be made simpler to use. For these reasons, that is why object-oriented programming is so successful. The complexity

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